The weather conditions of 2025 were perfect for a southern rust outbreak across the Midwest, resulting in many growers having to make late-season decisions on disease management. Southern rust is a ...

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire wants the Department of Agriculture to declare 29 counties as farm disaster areas as heavy spring rains have hit wheat farmers hard. The rain has affected up to ...

WORKERS WHO WILL BE PAID. NEW TONIGHT SOME FARMERS ARE SEEING LOSSES ON THEIR CORN CROP THIS SEASON. KCCI PEPPER TALKED WITH THE WOMAN TRACKING THE CROP DISEASE THAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM. SHE SAYS ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

Alison Robertson says she has been at Iowa State University (ISU) for 21 years, and she’s never seen as widespread a problem southern rust is in Iowa this season. She believes the disease is present ...

Support from Northarvest Bean Growers Association and U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants has allowed researchers at North Dakota State University to look at ways to manage ...

Timely scouting of soybean rust symptoms is a core component of successful management. Crops can suffer increasingly severe yield reduction the longer the fungus goes untreated. You can track the ...

Winter crops on light land and spring crops are suffering in the dry conditions. In the East, one agronomist described sugar beet as having a “torrid time” with some fields still to emerge as seeds ...